Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? Volume 11 afterword

Long time no see everybody. It's the author, Takehaya.

This time I have been able to safely deliver volume 11. This time the story centered around what happened to Sanae's body and about Koutarou's mentality. Sanae is a ghost and she has a fate that she can never escape. How will Sanae face that fate? And at that time, what do Koutarou and the invader girls think about it? That is the theme of this volume.

That's right, regarding the exceptions mentioned in the story. Only two exceptions were mentioned, but that was from the speaker's perception, and it wasn't related to the truth. In fact, there are about one and a half more exceptions. Since I suspect that might have confused some readers I decided to at least touch on it. Well, it's obvious who it might be though (lol)

This is the first episode focused around Sanae since volume 3. There are a total of ten volumes in between these two, so I believe I may have irritated all of the Sanae fans out there. But this was time necessary to develop Sanae's theme. If I didn't develop a strong enough bond between the two, I feared that it might leave everyone behind. If I tried something like this during the fourth or fifth volume, I'm sure the readers couldn't sympathize the way they can now. I believe that this story was only possible because Sanae had spent such long time with Koutarou and everyone else. And I hope everyone else can feel the same way.

Since I don't have much room for this afterword I will wrap it up here.

Finally, I would like to thank the editorial department for working so hard to help publish these books, to Poco-san who always draws great ill.u.s.trations, my friends who takes me out drinking during my slumps and to all the readers who warmly watch over me.

Then let us meet again in the afterword for Volume 12.

September, 2012

Takehaya